A blood-stained body of Balangir Chamber of Commerce president Tripurari Panigrahi was found on the railway tracks near Khujenpali under the Balangir Sadar police station on Monday morning.
The body was first spotted by locals who informed the Government Railway Police (GRP). A GRP team recovered the body and launched a probe into the case.
Panigrahi had not returned home on Sunday night, following which his family members searched for him. On Monday morning, the family members got a telephone call following the recovery of the body. They identified it to be of Panigrahi.
Though the exact cause of his death was yet to be ascertained, it was suspected that he might have died after falling from a train. There were rumours of murder as well. It was suspected that he was killed somewhere and his body was thrown on the railway tracks to make it look like an accident.
Chamber of Commerce members have demanded a high-level probe into the case.